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Totally 100% thought you meant mount in the sexual way. I am not your friend nor your sisters friend on facebook, but I am a loyal reader/stalker of your blog, so probably a given that I, like everyone reading/commenting here, is of course weird. Which I take to be a positive attribute. 🙂

Wait a minute. Jenny, is your maiden name Dusek? My very best friend in the world is a Dusek from Texas. I’ve never met anyone else with that surname — how very cool it would be if two such awesome women turned out to be related. 🙂

Love the links to stuff you didn’t come up with. Always a fan of The Oatmeal even when he’s semi-serious. Pami’s massage story was indeed hysterical. But it didn’t make me laugh half as much as your book is making me laugh. Honestly. I’m reading it at work and people have come over and asked if they need to call 9-1-1 or bring me an asthma inhaler or something. I have to read it with my legs crossed ‘cuz I’m on constant pee-your-pants alert.

Which just goes to show that whether they are real or stuffed, animals are good for a laugh. Loved the links too – esp God is not a Christian. Feel sorry for people who put God in a box. Malia recently blogged on Men, Sex and Pregnancy at http://blog.maliamartin.com/

…Damn my family is boring. I mean, our biggest story is the time I stabbed my step-dad through the hand with sewing scissors when I was six, or the time he and my brother were joking around with yard tools and he accidentally stabbed my brother with a pitchfork…through the hand.

I did not even think of that in a sexual way until after I saw you explaining the explanation. Is that cause I’m weird and think taxidermy naturally, or because I just know your family after reading so many of your stories?

I always wished I had a sibling for this very reason. No taxidermists, just stoner hippie parents. Wish I had someone to share my twisted sense of humour about it. You two are so fortunate to have each other. And a giant stuffed giraffe. With holes and broken legs. I do hope she shares it with you. I had a whole lot of kids on purpose specifically so they had someone to joke about their fucked up childhoods with. They already have two decrepit life-sized stuffed tigers which they are pretty good at sharing.

Cue tons of Bloggess fans trying to friend your sister on Facebook now.
Because us innernet people are weirdER. OH! Next book/movie title about the things you and the Bloggess Army accomplish? WEIRD AND WEIRDER.
*flies her freak flag*

Well, first of all I like this post. 🙂
Secondly, I was reading daily odd compliments, and it made me think of you. In a good way though because it makes me smile, and you make me smile. 🙂 Anyway, I hope you have a good day.

I kind of feel like your sister is a really great person for saving that poor, mangled giraffe. Mounting it would be absolutely appropriate (both kinds, because I don’t discriminate against furries/plushe lovers or taxidermists).

I finally ordered your book from amazon and received it in the mail yesterday evening. I must say that I am very disappointed. I thought for sure that the book would keep me busy and entertained for a few days but it did not. Instead, I read the entire book last night because I couldn’t stop reading. Please finish a second book promptly.

I was fascinated by the poor, poor lady who went in for a pre-natal massage and came away with….way more than she bargained for.

Speaking as someone who really enjoys an occasional massage, I can promise you that I will NEVER just lay down on the sheets with the naive expectation that those sheets are pristine and untouched…..I will be patting and checking from now on.

Dear Jenny,
I write to you at this time looking to enlist your services in a campaign of mine. My name is Cheyenne and I am 15 years old. I really want a hedgehog and have for a while. My parents said that they would consider it heavily if I was creative in my proposals. This is why I need your help. My mom is a huge fan of your site and she owns your book (which I have read. It’s hilarious that your mind works a lot like both me and my mom’s. And slightly disturbing. But mostly hilarious.) I was hoping that maybe you could write me back or write a blog post about it so that my mom could see how determined I really am? Maybe you could even make #hedgehogcampaign trend! Thanks for any help you can give me. 🙂
Sincerely,
Cheyenne

(Dear Cheyenne, hedgehogs.are.adorable. But? They’re also not great pets because they sleep all day and are up all night. They’re good for insomniacs though and when they take baths they pull me out of any sadness I have. So they’re like tiny anti-depressants who won’t play with you in the daytime when you want them to. I’m probably not helping here. I apologize. ~ Jenny)

That reminds me of the time my husband called my mom and told her, “I mounted an owl with my dad today!” Ten years later, he still hasn’t lived that down. (It was an owl decoy for scaring away birds, which they were mounting on the roof of his dad’s apartment building. Or so he says, anyway.)

hilarious facebook exchange. clearly FB needs a new group for Plush Taxidermy Enthusiasts. I for one would join and hope her stuffed giraffe gets restuffed as a shoulder mount and is the first one shown. stuffed and restuffed, twice stuffed. kinda like a twice baked potato

I wouldn’t have thought anything of the “mounting” since I know your dad is a taxidermist but the link below appeared in my feed. Even though I love my sisters, I can’t hit :”like” or repost it because all I can think of is…Yes, from the same “lady garden!”

Those altered books are AMAZING. There are so many creative and talented people out there. As an art major myself, sometimes I feel like Ace Ventura around the dective lady,…”I’m a little out of my league here.” Either way, it keeps me trying.
As for you family, the weirdness abounds in each clan. Each has their own level of weirdness, just ask The Wife. It’s what makes us family, yeah?

So I read your book today. My six year old daughter wanted to know what I was reading about. I told her it was about me. She then says “Well unless your a frickin mouse king I think you’re fibbing. Because I’m pretty sure you’re reading about a mouse king”. I then told her I was a mouse king and that shut her up for the rest of the day 🙂

Great book by the way. I almost peed myself when you wrote about the porn magazie. Because that exact same thing happened to my cousin and I. Except we were a bit more perverted and cut out the pictures and hid them in my generic Teddy Ruxpin’s zip-up butthole. Until my mom found them and started to question my sexuality… I was 7.

I was once considering buying framed art from some website. And next to every item was the option to “See it Mounted”. Each time I clicked the link I expected to see a gif of somebody humping a picture. It never was, though.

Tell Jenny you deserve a HUGE raise. Because I said so. It’s so Jenny. p.s. I need to know the name of the person RIP that died who was an accountant or something. Mrs. something, accountant or librarian. I have a little ok a lot of OCD action here. PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Question for you. I always wanted to be a writer, but my grammer sucks balls and I have adhd so I’m easily distracted. So I would actually be a really shitty writer, but still I know there’s a book deep down inside, maybe in my lower intestines, but it’s still there. Any whooo’ Do you have any pointers of what can help focus, build up the ol’ 7th grade grammer skills and maybe just maybe be my go to gal if need be? I know you want to. You know why? Because I am gangster and gangsters are pretty bad ass to give pointers to. 😀

I would have ended up rescuing that sad giraffe too. I thought I would one day grow out of believing that EVERYTHING has feelings, but it hasn’t happened yet. To this day I have a shabby couch in my dining room because I would feel sorry for it if I saw it on the curb for trash pickup.

OMG those links were hysterical. Kudos on linking The Oatmeal, too. My friend the TX T-Rex recommended it, and he was right to do so. My latest woes: our most excitable young cat Buzzy has figured out that the red bug (i.e., the laser pointer) is not something that appears, but something I MAKE appear, and has adjusted his pestering roster accordingly. I’m not sure if this will get better or worse if I find a job.

My sister had a 10ft stuffed-animal giraffe that was rescued from a liquor store (had been part of a promotional display). It was obvious the giraffe had been in the store to long, as he couldn’t stand up without leaning on something!! Then again our cats were named Ulthar and Frodo, so you can guess we weren’t what you’d call “normal”

Jenny I’m not sure if you’ll see this but I had to share. AMC has a new show that They made just for you! Immortalized is an unscripted series that brings viewers into the captivating and provocative world of creative and competitive taxidermy.

Dear Jenny,
You sent me this:
(Dear Cheyenne, hedgehogs.are.adorable. But? They’re also not great pets because they sleep all day and are up all night. They’re good for insomniacs though and when they take baths they pull me out of any sadness I have. So they’re like tiny anti-depressants who won’t play with you in the daytime when you want them to. I’m probably not helping here. I apologize. ~ Jenny)
I have researched them extensively and am aware that they sleep during the day, as they are nocturnal animals. However, in captivity, they sometimes adjust to their owner’s sleep patterns in order to bond with them. Also, they are super compassionate once they bond with you. So, they really are great pets! 🙂
Sincerely,
Cheyenne
P.S. You said that hedgehogs taking baths make you smile, so here is a video of one! 🙂